Norman Wisdom (Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom) Quotes
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!
